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The Universal Particular — Why You Might Fall in Love With Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862)

Sometimes a work is so much a product of its times that, for all its genius, it no longer translates beyond those times. I’ve read many…

Oct 12

The Universal Particular — Why You Might Fall in Love With Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862)

Oct 12

The Fiction of Real Life — Reading Shostakovich’s ‘Fake’ Autobiography, Testimony (1979)

One of the most fascinating literary documents of 20th-century music has to be the alleged memoirs of Dimitri Shostakovich, known as…

Sep 22

The Fiction of Real Life — Reading Shostakovich’s ‘Fake’ Autobiography, Testimony (1979)

Sep 22

Enter the First Supervillain! — H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man (1897)

Strangely enough, the Penguin Classics imprint didn’t boast a single volume of H.G. Wells until 2005, when his four early novels entered…

Sep 7

Enter the First Supervillain! — H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man (1897)

Sep 7

And Dogs Shall Inherit the Earth! Simak’s Forgotten Classic Sci-Fi Novel, City (1952)

Soviet poster for Laika, the first dog to fly in space in Sputnik-2

Aug 19

And Dogs Shall Inherit the Earth! Simak’s Forgotten Classic Sci-Fi Novel, City (1952)

Aug 19

The Greatest Sci-Fi Novel You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of: Terry Carr’s Cirque (1977)

Some books, even great books, are destined to elude your grasp. You will go your entire life without reading them or even hearing their…

Aug 5

The Greatest Sci-Fi Novel You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of: Terry Carr’s Cirque (1977)

Aug 5

When Fairy Tales Get Grim: A Child’s War on Adulthood in MacDonald’s The Princess and Curdie (1883)

Though a sequel to MacDonald’s justly celebrated fairy tale, The Princess and the Goblin (1872), The Princess and Curdie is a much darker…

Jul 19

When Fairy Tales Get Grim: A Child’s War on Adulthood in MacDonald’s The Princess and Curdie (1883)

Jul 19

Ithaka Is a Place…But You’ll Never Find It On a Map: The Art of Travel in Fantasy Lit

From the Maps of Matrakci Nashu, Public Domain Review

Jul 11

Ithaka Is a Place…But You’ll Never Find It On a Map: The Art of Travel in Fantasy Lit

Jul 11

Selfie From Deepest Space: How Voyager-1 Transformed the Humanities

LIGHTS OUT

Jun 17

Selfie From Deepest Space: How Voyager-1 Transformed the Humanities

Jun 17

We All Complete…But Not All Of Us Truly Live — Metaphors of Existence in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new…

Apr 6

We All Complete…But Not All Of Us Truly Live — Metaphors of Existence in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Apr 6

An Inivtation to Re-Read Pride and Prejudice (in case you forgot to do so!)

In John Keats’ famous short poem, “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again,” he remarks that

Mar 21

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Joshua Grasso

Joshua Grasso

English professor at East Central University (OK); PhD from Miami University (OH); eternal student and lover of books

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